crickets everywhere...
How many were laid off in total?
Why hasn't there been any news. Even the layoff trackers do not show VMware layoffs.
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I’d be curious to know what the attrition rate is vmware employees and the number of engineers trying to leave.
10K employees in 2 years will remain.
I see VMW on https://layoffs.fyi/
Standard playbook , Hrock Tran has ki-led the reporters.
That's because no customers give a sh-t about VMware. Google actually produces value for the consumer.
The news is for the mainstream. Everyone knows Google. No one in the mainstream knows VMware and Broadcom.
The Activision / Microsoft deal was widely reported as “the largest deal in tech” yet the VMware/bcom deal was larger - adjusting for the avgo stock price at acquisition time I believe the deal was worth $ 90 billion and was barely mentioned in the news.
I’d be curious to know what the attrition rate is vmware employees and the number of engineers trying to leave.
Why do you care? Layoffs are layoffs, doesn't matter how much coverage it gets. Does it change the outcome?
Here in Sofia office, we are still WFH and no one is affected! Just chill and work 1-2 hours a day.
Broadcom is a single man (Dictator) run company. The media will only report what he discloses. In Broadcom layoffs happen silently and regularly without much of noise.
Google haven’t just done a major acquisition, they just bloated when times were good.
I know how many layoffs there were. Why don’t you.
Google is a high profile company. Just like anything at Meta or Apple will generate more coverage than stories about Cloudflare or Okta.
Google stock relies on savings from layoffs. They have no more SPY products left to sell.
Broadcom thrives by actual earnings growth and eliminating wasteful employees pretending WFH.